For someone who has been the victim of a supporter's campaign to find where I worked in order to inform my employers of my McCann-sceptic posts, and in the meantime contacting the employers of a poor woman with the same name as myself, I think it's rather rich of you to take the moral high ground.
In my time I have seen supporters use deaths in the family, sexual abuse, disability and mental health problems as subjects with which to harangue sceptics. I have seen one woman driven nearly mad by threats from supporters when they managed to obtain her phone number. I have seen sceptic's children targeted by supporters by the posting their photographs on their blogs.
So please don't pretend that there aren't lunatics on both sides and further don't pretend for one minute that the harassment that the McCanns suffer at the hands of a very few idiots is any more frightening than the harassment that many sceptics suffer at the hands of their supporters.
I note that you fall far short of condemning the insanity and volume of the abuse directed at the Drs McCann, who I may remind you are the parents of a missing child.
I also note that what you are describing is the situation being suffered day and daily but multiplied thousands fold by the McCann family.
It says a lot about you that while you condemn isolated incidents you fail to condemn organised campaigns against people you do not know but have decided views about. Why is that?
You ignore the danger implicit in goading seriously disturbed individuals into action against the targets of this organised vitriol. Why is that?
What kind of mind is it that would even think of putting on a ‘madeleine’ face mask … a child who is missing ... and surrounding her mother while she is running to raise money for the charity set up to assist in publicising missing people and assisting their families?
IMO a very disturbed mind indeed.
Yet in a certain section of society ... it met with universal approval ... and I note you do not distance yourself from it.
